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Flying fish are heavily specialised creatures having undergone many changes in body shape and behaviour to leap from the see and glide. So how did something so complex evolve? To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/MothLightMedia To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://www.paypal.me/mothlightmedia To buy merchandise: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/moth-light... Email: mothlightmedia@outlook.com If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made. Sources: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/765560v1.full.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685536/ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Reconstruction-of-the-phenotype-of-Potanichthys-xingyiensis-gen-et-sp-nov_fig2_232766233 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221011908 https://fishlab.ucdavis.edu/category/mysteries-in-fish-functional-morphology/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293104178_Predator-driven_macroevolution_in_flyingfishes_inferred_from_behavioural_studies_Historical_controversies_and_a_hypothesis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335769633_Why_does_a_flying_fish_taxi_on_sea_surface_before_take-off_A_hydrodynamic_interpretation